IMAP x Gmail => labels ?

Question

Any experiences on a way to get gmail labels (or even filters ?) from an imap connection ? Can't find a clue... thx for any infos about it.

Answer 1

There is definetly no way to get Gmail filter-rules from IMAP. But Gmail has an import/export feature for that.

Labels can be seen as IMAP folders. The latest thunderbird release does that in fact.

Answer 2

Yes, you can do this. You need to enable IMAP of course, obviously - you then need to configure labels on a per-label basis to select 'imap' for the ones that you want to export. If you don't, then you'll just get the default ones, like INBOX and All Mail.

Answer 3

Labels can be seen as IMAP folders.

Answer 4

Gmail labels appear is folders in IMAP. If you can get a list of the folders that a message appears in, you can infer what the labels are.